The six of us in Xinjiang got the train to Lanzhou for a language course with the rest of the China
group at the end of September, adventuring off for a few days before for a visit to Labrang Monastery. Took about 28 hours to get to Lanzhou, where we took a bus for 3 hours to a town that
Lonely Planet said was "a sleepy town, waiting for the camels and caravans to
come back", but turned out to be a bustling city. We headed for the night market,
which again Lonely Planet made sound amazing...
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